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  • April 7, 2017
  • Article

Signs You’re Losing Control of Your Family Business

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
These red flags signal the need to reassert authority. View Details
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  • January–February 2021
  • Article

A Culture of Continuity Is Key to Family Business Longevity

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Keywords: Family Business; Organizational Culture; Success
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  • September 26, 2022
  • Article

Is Your Family Office Built for the Future?

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Family offices can provide a number of benefits, including privacy, customization, and having your own team to handle a wide range of services, such as guiding family philanthropy, managing shared properties, or even managing household help. Successful principals in... View Details
Keywords: Business Offices; Family and Family Relationships
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  • April 15, 2015
  • Article

What to Do If a Feud Threatens Your Family Business

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Family Business; Conflict and Resolution
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  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709043 One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon Harvard Business School Case 409-044 Rob Smith, senior partner of construction consultancy Davis Langdon, has just led the firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 8, 2015
  • Article

Making Better Decisions in Your Family Business

By: Josh Baron, Rob Lachenauer and Sebastian Ehrensberger
Family businesses face complex decisions, from CEO succession to business strategies. A "four-room" model helps structure decision-making in these businesses: Owner Room (ownership goals and board election), Board Room (performance monitoring and CEO appointment),... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Decisions; Business Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Management Succession; Talent and Talent Management
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  • 15 Apr 2023
  • Conference Presentation

Autonomous Systems

By: Hise O. Gibson, Rob Wittman, Brandon Tseng, Nini Hamrick and Tim Booher
Autonomous systems have been on the front lines and front pages in the war in Ukraine, yet there are many unanswered questions regarding their future role and capabilities. Currently, these systems are employed in myriad use cases in logistics, intelligence, and... View Details
Keywords: War; Technology Adoption
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  • 16 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

planning for the long term, however, good judo strategists must also be prepared to "pivot," as Rob Glaser (chairman and CEO of RealNetworks) says. "When we make trade-offs between short-term gain and long-term... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
  • 05 Oct 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

he said "our best policy is to promote economic liberty so that individuals and corporations can adjust to changes in society, technology, the economy, the environment and politics stop trying to make government the engine of growth, and watch the economy soar.”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

choose a lingua franca to expect everyone in the organization to learn a sufficient amount of what may be a totally foreign language for them? A: Needless to say, you want the right people with the right skills on any job. Rob Kaplan and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

cadavers. Such concern is also probably heightened by U.S. historical accounts of grave robbing (Goodwin 2006; Sappol 2002; Shultz 1991). Together these elements contribute to fears of "body-snatching." C. A Market in All but... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

Why do so many wanna-be entrepreneurs like Scott Rozic, founder and CEO of XMarkstheSpot, head for Silicon Valley? The reason may seem as obvious as why Willie Sutton robbed banks—because that's where the money is. But it's really more... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 18 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

seemingly in mid-air (he later admitted the hoax) and "who's playing whom?" such as Toronto mayor Rob Ford's selfie-mania with constituents. Click to watch. Going Too Far Given the loose, spontaneous nature of social media marketing,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising
  • 21 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

file sharing has robbed them of billions of dollars after four consecutive years of falling music sales, they criticized the team's methodology, which consisted of monitoring 1.75 million downloads over 17 weeks in 2002, scouring through... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

consumerswould buy anything on the Internet.— Hiroshi Mikitani of Rakuten Brands also tend to be highly localized. "You may find one brand very popular in Beijing and not be able to find it in Guangzhou at all," he said. Rob... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

votes to more popular candidates, a phenomenon often called strategic voting. For other parameters, the model predicts "vote-stealing" where the addition of a third candidate robs a viable major candidate of electoral support.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

School. We asked Vietor to discuss some of the findings in this e-mail interview. Manda Salls: What inspired you and your colleagues to write this book? Richard Vietor: Rob had some financial support for looking at CSR, and we got more... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?

other…Technology robs us of the close contact we seek, and are reinforced by, in the learning cycle." But respondents who telecommute don't see it that clearly. Alan Carswell points out that: "One main characteristic of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Sep 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

them to open up and share their authentic selves, life stories, crucibles, and their hopes and dreams enable them to flourish and grow as leaders by feeling fully accepted. The real danger of labeling people by their external characteristics is that it View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 07 Apr 2011
  • What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

might be threatened. Rob Houck reminds us that considerations of potential legal liability often inhibit transparency in such cases. Should the public sector wait for an "invitation" for its intervention? The sentiment here... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

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